Senior Associate, Investments Legal

Location

Business - Real Estate

Brookfield Real Estate Group is one of Brookfield’s primary operating groups. The Real Estate Group is one of the world's largest investors in real estate, with a global portfolio that includes office, retail, multifamily, logistics, hospitality and alternative real estate assets on five continents. The Group owns and operates approximately $268 billion of assets representing the most iconic properties in the world’s most dynamic markets. We seek to generate value by leveraging our operating expertise and focusing on our core real estate capabilities of leasing, financing, development, design and construction as well as property and facilities management. For more information, visit https://www.brookfield.com/our-businesses/real-estate.

Brookfield Culture

Brookfield has a unique and dynamic culture.  We seek team members who have a long-term focus and whose values align with our Attributes of a Brookfield Leader:  Entrepreneurial, Collaborative and Disciplined.  Brookfield is committed to the development of our people through challenging work assignments and exposure to diverse businesses.

Job Description

Purpose of the role:

Provision of all provision of strategic legal advice, leadership of transaction execution and investment consortium arrangements and responsibility for corporate securities matters for Brookfield Property Group and its associated funds.

Responsibilities:

Primary focus will be in Japan, with a secondary focus on South Korea, South-East Asia and regional initiatives. The role will include working across integrated teams across the greater Asia Pacific region.

Acquisitions and disposals

• Responsibility for execution on the full range of issues that arise in complex, multi-faceted transactions, across all sectors and transaction types, including private and public company mergers and acquisitions, lending and structured finance

• Manage and advise on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions, their potential impact and suggested mitigating actions, including conflicts matters and fund compliance matters

• Advise on accurate interpretation of contract documents, bond indentures and other relevant documents in conjunction with prospective investments, existing portfolio companies as well as in conjunction with supporting the real estate group operation and finance team

• Review and advise on capital management initiatives and documentation

Other

• Stay abreast of Brookfield's broader strategy and legal developments affecting the Real Estate group, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into the group's transactional and governance practices

• Litigation support as needed Management of specific external legal engagements, liaison with external legal advisers as required, review of legal advice issued by external legal advisers and communication of such advice to internal stakeholders

• Form collaborative relationships with relevant personnel from the management team and across the Brookfield Group functions such as Tax, Accounting, Risk, and Compliance

• Oversee and provide guidance and support as needed to lawyers in the Real Estate Group across the region

• Other ad hoc projects and duties as required

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Legal related discipline

• Bilingual fluency in both English and Japanese, which is required to communicate effectively with Japanese-speaking clients, counterparties, vendors and other stakeholders, and to review and manage business communications and documentation in both languages.

Experience

• Minimum of five to seven years solid M&A, finance, equity capital markets or debt capital markets legal experience working within top-tier law firm and/or large multinational organisations

• Strong understanding of complex and growing organisational structure

• Sound judgement and commercial acumen

• Good understanding of various types of legal structures including GKs, TMKs and ISHs

• Excellent technical and drafting skills, meticulous attention to detail

• Understanding of the Brookfield culture and values

• Ability to manage high levels of detailed/complex work. 

• Ability to think through legal and compliance consequences with all processes, putting in place appropriate pathways for outcomes being sought.

• Flexibility, commitment, ownership, teamwork, integrity, high performance.

Brookfield is committed to maintaining a Positive Work Environment that is safe and respectful; our shared success depends on it.  Accordingly, we do not tolerate workplace discrimination, violence or harassment.